UWP Lecturers FW: The Cost of Getting Better:Suicide, Switchpoints, Sensations-Tuesday, April 19

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From: Susan Brown [mailto:susan.brown at ucr.edu] 
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Subject: The Cost of Getting Better:Suicide, Switchpoints,
Sensations-Tuesday, April 19

 


 

 


 

 JASBIR PUARAssociate Professor of Women's Studies at Rutgers University The
Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Switchpoints, Sensations.April 19,
20113:30-5:00pmINTS 1113"The Cost of Getting Better" situates public
discourse about bullying and queer suicide (e.g. the "It Gets Better"
campaign) within the broader contexts of neoliberal demands on bodily
capacity and debility. Jasbir Puar is the author of Terrorist Assemblages:
Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the
2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American
Studies. Professor Puar has authored numerous articles that appear in
Gender, Place, and Culture; Social Text; Radical History Review; Antipode: A
Radical Journal of Geography; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
Society. Her edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ entitled "Queer
Tourism: Geographies of Globalization" and she co-edited a volume of Society
and Space entitled "Sexuality and Space".



 

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